Thanks very much. Your comment on "shrinking your eyes and fingers" is
duly noted. I am particularly interested in using the netbook as a data
logger for an ascii text stream to the RS-232 serial com port. I could
use Windows hyperterminal for this but I like the notion of using DOS.
It's very clean and relatively easy to automate for a dedicated
function, especially one involving text only. I assume that none of the
netbooks would have a standard com port so I was thinking that I could
use a USB-serial adapter to create a virtual com port. Does anyone know
if there are any available DOS drivers for these adapters?

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-----Original Message-----
From: Eric Auer [mailto:e.a...@jpberlin.de]
Sent: Thursday, January 08, 2009 9:52
To: freedos-user@lists.sourceforge.net
Subject: Re: [Freedos-user] FreeDOS on a netbook?
Hi guys,
> Has anyone ever thought about installing (or has installed) Free-DOS
> on any of the new Netbooks, such as the Asus Eee PC S101? I would be
> very interested in your experiences.
For the sake of experiment, I once ran FreeDOS from USB stick on one of
the 7in Asus EEE PC netbooks. I would recommend shrinking your eyes and
fingers first... ;-).
Apart from that problem, nothing exciting went wrong.
Keyboard and screen worked. Did not test sound or lan or even wlan.
Dunno whether the "mouse" worked. Would be nice if somebody could try
again on 9in/10in EEE PC.
Eric
PS: I believe fdapm failed to do anything ACPI (throttle, suspend,
poweroff) but fdapm apmdos and pcisleep worked?
PPS: Now that Windows for OLPC is old news, did somebody try whether the
corresponding "PC BIOS" now runs FreeDOS?
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